Helping clients enhance their lives through organization, elimination of excess, and personal and professional goal achievement.
All in Productivity
Technology has become an integral part of our lives, for better or worse. Join me for a December Digital Declutter to cut back on the technology that has become a burden.
Sometimes we can’t ignore the distractions, despite our best efforts. Maybe the solution has to be radical.
In these days of always-on internet, constant interruptions, high-pressure work, and family obligations, you might feel like the days are slipping away. This article will introduce a simple, but effective, strategy to help you bring awareness to your day.
Have you ever said that you would set something down 'for now" and then later had to look for it because it wasn't where it should have been? Don’t worry. It’s a bad habit, but one that you can break!
There’s a myth out there that morning people are the most productive and that if you want to be efficient and effective, you must get up early and hit the day running. It’s not true! It is better to figure out when YOU work the best, and using the process of elimination could help you determine your best work time.
I’m a productivity specialist and if I procrastinate so much, is there any hope for anyone? We’ve all experienced procrastination sometimes, and I’d like to examine why I procrastinate so much. Then, I will offer practical strategies to help you avoid procrastination and start producing.
Creating and maintaining a filing system is easier if you have guidelines in place. Here are 6 tips for creating an effective filing system where you can find what you need, at the time you need it.
Timers are small things with big impact. While one is useful for playing games or reminding the cook to take something out of the oven, it can also help you get things done.
Documenting your progress in any endeavor of importance is vital if you want to know exactly where you came from to compare with where you end up. This can help prevent feeling like you’ve not made any progress (like when you are decluttering a room) or give you evidence that you are making progress that might not otherwise be visible (like practicing a daily shutdown ritual).
When we learn new things we expect to practice in order to be good. Why wouldn’t that be the case with organization, too?
Home workers are continually surprised that they can’t simply ease into a work or school routine while working from home. For productivity specialists, this isn’t all that surprising. Our minds don’t make transitions as quickly and as easily as we’d like to believe. It’s because they’re missing one critical piece of the puzzle: The commute.
We’re at the end of January. Have you given up on your goals and resolutions yet? You have, haven’t you? Me too. Maybe that’s ok.
You’ve probably heard that keeping a journal will improve your life in some way. Dust off one of those journals you’ve been collecting (I know I’m not the only one who has dozens of unused or partially-used journals). It might be time to revisit closing out your day by doing some focused reflection.
Using outside accountability is a great strategy for those of us who struggle to do things when the only one expecting the change is us.
Have you finally accepted that your kids will likely be doing a lot of virtual learning for the foreseeable future? It looks like virtual learning, at least part time, will be here to stay.
While a lot of parents muddled through the first round of at-home school when things shut down in March, now might be a good time to set up an on-purpose learning station in your home.
As a productivity and time management consultant, I’ve been helping my clients get a better handle on the new work-from-home reality that doesn’t have a known end-date. If you’re one of the ones who are struggling and feeling like there’s something wrong with you for not adapting well, know that you are not alone.
Here in the United States, most of us have been ordered to stay at home for the past 6ish weeks. While everyone is experiencing the COVID-19 pandemic crisis in their own way, I’ve noticed there are a lot of similarities in the ways many of us are feeling.
My conversations with a lot of colleagues, friends, and clients have shown that many of us spent the first few weeks in a sort of denial and fog. I think we had a hope that this was all very temporary and that things would get back to “normal” soon enough.
Feeling that nothing can be done until perfect is achieved or a perfect outcome can be assured is an awfully heavy burden the perfectionist takes on. It can be completely paralyzing and incredibly stressful.
